Forfeit vs Indemnify - What's the difference?
forfeit | indemnify |
A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.
* Shakespeare
Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
* Goldsmith
(obsolete, rare) Injury; wrong; mischief.
* Ld. Berners
To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
To fail to keep an obligation.
* Shakespeare
Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
* Shakespeare
* Emerson
To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
* 1670 , , letter to Lord Arlington, in The Works of Sir William Temple ,
(senseid)(chiefly, legal) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury
* 1906 , Civil Code of the State of California [http://books.google.com/books?id=Vds3AAAAIAAJ], page 405:
(obsolete, rare) to hurt, to harm
*1583 , Thomas Stocker's translation of A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries , i. 63a
*:He... did not belieue]] that his [[Majesty, Maiestie by this occasion coulde any way be endemnified .
*1593 , Thomas Lodge, Life & Death of William Long Beard , E ij
*:What harme the Rhodians haue]] [[done, doone thee, that thou so much indemnifiest them?
In obsolete rare terms the difference between forfeit and indemnify
is that forfeit is injury; wrong; mischief while indemnify is to hurt, to harm.As verbs the difference between forfeit and indemnify
is that forfeit is to suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance while indemnify is to secure against loss or damage; to insure.As a noun forfeit
is a penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.As an adjective forfeit
is lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.forfeit
English
Noun
(en noun)- That he our deadly forfeit should release'' (John Milton, ''On the Morning of Christ's Nativity , 1629)
- He who murders pays the forfeit of his own life.
- Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal / Remit thy other forfeits .
- Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day.
- to seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit
Verb
(en verb)- He forfeited his last chance of an early release from jail by repeatedly attacking another inmate.
- Because only nine players were present, the football team was forced to forfeit the game.
- I will have the heart of him if he forfeit .
Usage notes
* Very rarely, forfeit is used as the past tense form and past participle (i.e., the past tense forms and the present tense form are homographs).Synonyms
* (lose a contest) capitulate, surrender * (voluntarily give up) forgo, withgoDerived terms
* forfeits * nonforfeited * nonforfeiting * nonforfeitureAdjective
(-)- thy wealth being forfeit to the state
- to tread the forfeit paradise
indemnify
English
Etymology 1
From (forming verbs'')''Oxford English Dictionary , 1st ed. "indemnify, v.1". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1900.Verb
(en-verb)page 101:
- The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.
- The lender of a thing for use must indemnify the borrower for damage caused by defects or vices in it, which he knew at the time of lending, and concealed from the borrower.